The first NHL Winter Classic, held at Ralph Wilson Stadium on New Year's Day in 2008, has been awarded the 2008 Sports Event of the Year by SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily.

Just about every sports fan in Buffalo needs no help remembering the day that Crosby & Co. came into the Ralph and defeated the Sabres 2-1 in a shootout. The insults added to the injuries were Sidney Crosby scoring the winning goal in the shootout and the opposing netminder, Ty Conklin, being the same man who had rode the pine for the Sabres the last half of the season before. You'll also remember this was the year the Sabres bungled their way through the regular season and their contract talks with Brian Campbell.

There have been a couple of things worth mentioning going on with our beloved teams lately, so I thought I'd attempt to bring you all (but mostly me) up to speed.

In Sabres news, there has been a little action in the roster department as the team lost a player and resigned another. The Sabres signed Paul Byron (left), a 5-9, 170-pound center from Montreal, Quebec, to a three-year entry-level deal. Byron has been playing for the Gatineau Olympiques in the QMJHL (Quebec Major Junior Hockey League). In his last season with the Olympiques, he set career highs in assists (66) and points (99) as he finished fourth in league scoring. On the flip side, the Sabres lost forward Marek Zagrapan to the Severstal Cherepovets of the KHL (Kontinental Hockey League). He was a first-round draft pick in 2005, but spent the last three years in the minors.

[DGWUS Super Special Fun Fact: Paul Byron would later be part of the trade for Robyn Regehr. Way to go, Paul!]

I like Roscoe, I really do. His punt returning ability alone makes him valuable. But this whole whiny speech about the coaching staff not giving him opportunities is far from accurate. With injuries to Reed, Peerless Price, and James Hardy over the last few seasons, he had plenty of opportunities to step up. The truth is, if Roscoe steps up while actually using a step ladder, he would still only be 3'6". I don't make the facts. I just report them, folks.

Below is an actual picture of Roscoe out on Halloween last year.*

*in no way is that an actual picture of Roscoe Parrish... it's Kanye West.

Last year, McGee could have been covering Josh Reed and suddenly fell into a hidden cavern, found a map to the Lost City of Atlantis, fought off evil gargoyles sworn to protect the secret, and emerged with golden wings & green horns, AND ESPN STILL would have thought twice about running the story.

But then again, falling down and hurting your shoulder with absolutely no severity is pretty important too.

Walter Garbinski enters transit headquarters for what he assumes will be another slow day. As he sits at his post, monitoring the Buffalo Metro Rail, he notices the train has made an unscheduled stop between Fountain Plaza and Lafayette Square.

We haven't had a solid, angry post here at DGWUS in awhile, probably because the Yachtsman has been busy, so here we go:

Some asshole named John Hopkins wrote a terribly misinformed, factual error filled, and just simply awful column for the Tonawanda News, which you can read for yourself here.

I hate to give this douch-bag more attention than he deserves, especially since it is painfully obvious he only wrote it to get noticed by someone other than his immediate family, co-workers, and the gangly red-headed hooker who works outside the casino Tuesday nights (I hope he gets checked out), but DGWUS has to say something.